Socially Responsible Supply Chains Can Improve Bottom-Line Results
February 2009
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Executives from around the world will meet in Barcelona, Spain, in April to learn how corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be applied to their supply chains and other aspects of management to deliver financial value in today’s economic environment.
New insights will be delivered by faculty from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and ESADE Business School as part of a collaborative executive education program, Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategic Integration and Competitiveness, April 22-24.
Now in its second year, the program will feature new speakers and faculty who will address a wide array of issues, from managing corporate philanthropy to achieving responsible competitiveness. The aim of the program is to expose executives from different industries to state-of-the-art knowledge on responsibility and sustainability in business, as well as to reflect on how these issues impact business strategy.
Key sessions delivered during the program will include:
- Environmental Sustainability as a Market Strategy
- Competitive Advantage and Responsible Competitiveness
- Building a Sustainable Supply Chain
- How Agility, Adaptability, and Alignment Affect Sustainability
- CSR and Types of Stakeholder Management
- NGO-Business: Confrontation vs. Collaboration
“In the supply chain area alone, companies have an opportunity to both save costs and create social value while retooling to meet the demands of contracting markets,” says Hau Lee, a program faculty member and the Thoma Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. “Retooling in a down cycle is an opportunity to make changes that will prove advantageous later.”
Among other faculty members from ESADE and Stanford Business School, recently added speaker Susanne Stormer, vice president of global TBL management at Novo Nordisk, will share her process for providing CSR leadership within a major enterprise.
The program application deadline is April 1. More information can be found at www.gsb.stanford.edu/exed/csr.